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    Turnips

    Part of my food plot this year included turnips. The turnips look great!

    The deer don't seem to be eating them though. I thought I read on here that it takes a freeze to make them palatable. We had a freeze last week.

    What is it going to take to get them to eat the turnips? I mean, I personally don't like turnips, but I've heard deer do.

    Should I disc it and if so when?

    #2
    Just leave them alone and try again next year

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      #3
      Give the native foliage time to disappear. Shouldn’t be long

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        #4
        Some folks have told me that deer never eat the turnips they plant. I plant them along with Daikon radish. Deer will eat tops and roots of the radish and eat the turnip bulbs after a freeze. They will pull them out of the ground and take bites out of them.

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          #5
          They’re on my turnips hard right now. We’ve had some nights in the teens and that sets them off. I have one 3 acre plot that is chock full of them.

          I love greens and boiled turnips as well, so it’s a win win.

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            #6
            Leave them. Deer will eat them.

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              #7
              Originally posted by brokeno View Post
              Leave them. Deer will eat them.
              Experienced this last year, they will eat them when all else fails

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                #8
                I hear they hit them after a good freeze.

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                  #9
                  I have personally watched deer eat turnip greens several times. I would leave them.

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                    #10
                    I planted some a few years ago and the deer never did touch them.

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                      #11
                      Need a couple good freezes on them before the deer will hit them. It will happen.

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                        #12
                        try putting a couple pans of cornbread out there with em. works for me

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                          #13
                          It depends on natural food that is available...I would give it time and let the other foods get eaten....

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                            #14
                            They eat the tops early but it was takes a few freezes after the bulb matures to make it sweet. They eat them at my place every year.

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                              #15
                              Second year, nothing eating them yet, not even hogs.

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